Cognate Music Theories

ISBN-13: 9781032025940 / Twarda / 2024 / 360 str.

Opis

This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by the musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory.

Spis treści

1. Musicology beyond historicism: Epistemological implications and scope of John Walter Hill’s cognate music theory Ignacio Prats Arolas  Part I: Framing concepts  2. Cognate music theory John Walter Hill  3. Insiders and outsiders: Revisiting Indigenous musical thought Bruno Nettl  Part II: Syntax, form, and genre  4. Heinrich Christoph Koch's description of the Andantino e cantabile in Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 42 as a response to recent sonata theories Gregory Hellenbrand  5. Artisinal knowledge as a cognate music theory: Reading a partimento Robert Gjerdingen  6. Intersections of biography, analysis, and performance: Beethoven at Heiligenstadt in 1802 William Kinderman  7. A cognate theory of generic classification in the Airs sérieux et à boire of Sébastien de Brossard Kenneth Smith  Part III: Rhetoric and emotions  8. Ripa’s Iconologia as a source for musical rhetoric of the seventeenth century Barbara Russano Hanning  9. The language of emotions from Descartes to Metastasio Álvaro Torrente and José María Domínguez  Part IV: Timbre, color, and temperament  10. "Quegli strumenti, che erano più atti a far proporzionata accompagnatura al balletto a cavallo”: Envisioning a cognate theory of instrumental timbre in early modern Florence Kelley Harness  11.  “Énergie des modes”:Tuning and temperament  in seventeenth-century France Charlotte Mattax Moersch  12. "Il cembalo de’ colori, e la musica degli occhi”: Francesco Algarotti and a cognate concept of music in the age of the Enlightenment  Bella Brover-Lubovsky  Part V: Historical sources and cultural hermeneutics  13. Insider and outsider views in early modern correspondence involving patrons and musicians Dinko Fabris  14. Anthropology, music, and theater in a seventeenth-century year Robert Kendrick  15. Song about song, music about life: Herder on music's transcendent moment Philip Bohlman. Index

O autorze

Ignacio Prats Arolas is on the faculty of musicology at the Conservatorio Superior de Música “Joaquín Rodrigo” in Valencia, Spain and teaches courses on music at the Florida State University Valencia Study Center. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.